Marketplace (new releases)

Please don’t take this post as a violation of the rules. I will stick to plain facts so there isn’t a question on whether something is an opinion, or what the intention was.

There can be about 12-18 new releases each week for each platform with the current staffing. Currently each week, there is a developer who is simply reskinning the Cabri G2 with a new external model, and releasing 2 of those each week. (The proof of that is each aircraft has the checklist of the G2, even if the aircraft that is being modelled doesn’t have all the equipment the G2 does). A simple reskin of a default aircraft can be turned around much quicker than developers who has spent months fully producing a content piece from scratch. 2 out of 12 of the available spots each week is clearly giving that developer an unfair advantage on sales each week, and complicating the process of trying to get new updates and new products from other developers into the marketplace.

While putting a priority on aircraft and updates showed that Microsoft wants to resolve the issues the best they can with the manpower they have, this developer is falling into the loophole of the process and benefitting from it, and making the situation even more noticeable and frustrating for other developers and users.

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